client’s profile requires, aside from the profile of interests, the evaluation of the system of
aptitudes, skills, abilities and knowledge (obtained by other specific tests). At the same
time, this instrument may be useful to parents or teachers motivated to support their
children or pupils in self-assessment, information, academic and vocational decision-
making (see the websites at the end of the bibliography for this article), adults seeking for
a job or intending to change jobs.
Method evaluation
The verification of reliability was performed by: test-retest (quotas of over 0.80), estimate
of internal consistency, evaluation of profile stability by inter-correlation of two profiles
at certain time intervals, etc. This exercise has shown the high quality of this instrument
in the field of evaluating professional interests.
Construct validity and concurrent validity (by comparison to SVIB Basic Interest Scales)
are also high.
Advantages:
- the questionnaire is well grounded statistically, on the whole;
- manual and electronic scoring;
- easy interpretation of the contents of scales on various roles related to work,
due to their detailed narrative description; - scales allowing numeric comparison and graphs within various occupational
groups and academic fields; - an instrument open to various types of use (guidance in education, work,
offering Holland scores, etc.); - international recognition (facilitating comparative studies);
- relatively short interval for completion (approximately 50 minutes);
- different scales for men and women subjects;
- immediate personalized report, including supporting elements for decision-
making; - the completion may be performed in stages, that is the process can be taken
up if an interruption should occur.